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HALE (Verb)
1.
$
(
"$
, 4951) “to drag, haul,” is rendered “haling” in Acts 8:3, of taking to
trial or punishment. See
DRAG
.
2.
$
(
"$
, 2694), an intensive form of No. 1, lit., “to pull down” (
),
hence, “to drag away,” is used in Luke 12:58, of haling a person before a judge.¶
HALF
$
(
J
, 2255), an adjective, is used (a) as such in the neuter plural, in Luke
19:8, lit., “the halves (of my goods)”; (b) as a noun, in the neuter sing., “the half,” Mark
6:23; “half (a time),” Rev. 12:14; “a half,” 11:9, 11,
RV
.¶
For
HALF-SHEKEL
see
SHEKEL
HALL
1.
$
(
' )
, 833), “a court,” most frequently the place where a governor dispensed
justice, is rendered “hall” in Mark 15:16 and Luke 22:55,
KJV
(
RV
, “court”). See
COURT
,
FOLD
,
PALACE
.
2.
(
$ 0$
, 4232) is translated “common hall” in Matt. 27:27,
KJV
(
RV
, “palace”); “Praetorium” in Mark 15:16; “hall of judgment” or “judgment hall” in
John 18:28, 33; 19:9; Acts 23:35 (
RV
, “palace,” in each place); “praetorian guard,” Phil.
1:13 (
KJV
, “palace”). See
PALACE
.¶
HALLELUJAH
$
(
;<
, 239) signifies “Praise ye Jah.” It occurs as a short doxology
in the Psalms, usually at the beginning, e.g., 111, 112, or the end, e.g., 104, 105, or both,
e.g., 106, 135 (where it is also used in v. 3), 146-150. In the NT it is found in Rev. 19:1,
3, 4, 6, as the keynote in the song of the great multitude in heaven. “Alleluia,” without the
initial “H,” is a misspelling.¶
HALLOW
(
2 1
, 37), “to make holy” (from
, “holy”), signifies to set apart for
God, to sanctify, to make a person or thing the opposite of
, “common”; it is
translated “Hallowed,” with reference to the name of God the Father in the Lord’s Prayer,
Matt. 6:9; Luke 11:2. See
SANCTIFY
.
HALT
(
, 5560), “lame,” is translated “halt” in Matt. 18:8; Mark 9:45; John 5:3,
in Acts 14:8, “cripple”; in Luke 14:21,
KJV
, “halt,”
RV
, “lame”; elsewhere, “lame,” Matt.
11:5; 15:30, 31; 21:14: Luke 7:22; 14:13; Acts 3:2; 8:7; Heb. 12:13; some mss. have it in
Acts 3:11 (
KJV
, “the lame man”),
RV
, “he,” translating
$ $
, as in the best texts.¶
Note:
For
$
, Matt. 18:8,
RV
, “halt, see
MAIMED
, No. 2.
HAND
(
&$
, 5495), “the hand” (cf. Eng., “chiropody”), is used, besides its ordinary
significance, (a) in the idiomatic phrases, “by the hand of,” “at the hand of,” etc., to
signify “by the agency of,” Acts 5:12; 7:35; 17:25; 14:3; Gal. 3:19 (cf. Lev. 26:46); Rev.
19:2; (b) metaphorically, for the power of God, e.g., Luke 1:66; 23:46; John 10:28, 29;